After winning Best of Festival in the Two-Year/Small Colleges Category at the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts, the BEA announced earlier this month that “The White Room” also won Best of the Best.

This is the first time in the history of the festival that a student from a two-year school has won the Best of the Best Award. The BEA Festival of Media Arts is an international exhibition of award-winning student works. There were more than 1,300 entries in the festival this year.

“The White Room,” filmed entirely on the Rock Valley College campus, is a psychological drama that follows a young man who wakes up trapped and confused in a mysterious room with no recollection of how he came to be there.

Staley Da Bear to visit St. Bridget’s

LOVES PARK — Chicago Bears mascot, Staley Da Bear, will be at St. Bridget Catholic School from 9:30 to 11:45 a.m. Friday to help children celebrate their participation in Race for Education.

Race for Education is a jog-a-thon that involves students walking or jogging around a quarter-mile area for one hour. The students have sent sponsor mailers to family and friends asking that they sponsor them.

St. Bridget Catholic School is located at 600 Clifford Ave. Friends, neighbors and parishioners are invited to join in this event.

Cheer on Golden Apple winners

Members of the public are invited to celebrate some of the region’s best educators Friday night at the Radisson Hotel, 200 S. Bell School Road.

This year’s Golden Apple teachers and the 2014 Puri Family Outstanding Principal will arrive by limousine starting at 5:30 p.m.

Every year, recipients of the Golden Apple award make a red carpet entrance to the Annual Excellence in Education Banquet. Friends, family, students and supporters of education in the Rock River Valley are encouraged to attend the entrance and bring signs, cameras, etc. to help welcome the evening’s honorees.